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The Formation of the Biblical Canon, Volumes I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lee Martin McDonald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon—the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian bible. In these two volumes—in sum more than double the length of his previous works on this subject—McDonald presents his most in-depth overview to date. McDonald shows students and researchers how the list of texts that...

The following is an overview and summary of the formation and canonization of the Hebrew Bible as well as the Old and New Testaments for Christians. This overview will be seen in more detail in each of the major sections of this investigation of canon formation. We begin with some foundational questions as well as introductory issues for the whole scope of what will follow in considerably more detail. As we begin our study of the formation of the Bible,
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